Bath holidays
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Corkage: restaurant reviewYou don’t need to be a wine expert to enjoy well-chosen bottles by the glass at this friendly wine bar with food. By Jay Rayner
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Saving Bath from the beastly bulldozer - archive21 May 1973: Architecture writer James Lees-Milne fears the historic city has been ‘wantonly and systematically mutilated’
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Soaking up history in a Bath spaWhen our writer took the waters in Bath, he found the spa at a new hotel so luxurious he felt he was back in Roman times
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Jane Austen's day out - videoA film bringing a statue of the novelist to life is drawing in the virtual crowds
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Weird and wonderful bookshops worldwide – in picturesFrom a Canadian bookshop opened by Alice Munro in the 1960s to one in the island of Santorini started by drunk Oxford students, some of the world’s most exotic booksellers feature in The Bookshop Book, published as part of a UK-wide Books are My Bag campaign to support the bookselling industry in the run-up to Christmas. Its author Jen Campbell introduces some of the finest
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Jane Austen Festival breaks record for Regency costume gatheringBath festival reclaims world record from American Austen fans
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The Pig Near Bath, Pensford, Somerset: hotel review
The latest in the Pig country house hotel chain claims to be 'just a restaurant with rooms' but its spacious rooms, huge gardens and spa treatments belie such modest claims
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Travel tips: winter sun in Spain, dark nights at home and getaways in Bath
Soak up the last of the sun at Cabo de Gata, enjoy Britain's after-dark highlights and discover the four most elegant places to stay in Bath – whatever your budget
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Fundraising appeal launched to reopen Bath's alfresco Cleveland PoolsBilled as the only surviving Georgian open air swimming baths in the UK, it will cost an estimated £3m to restore the centre
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Mitch Tonks' food tour of the West Country
Chef Mitch Tonks recommends a food-lover's trip around south-west England: from great restaurants in Bath and Bristol to the best seafood in Devon and Cornwall
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Elgar sets the tone for England's largest country showCountry diary: Shepton Mallet, Somerset: From the stars of the livestock rings to the maypole on the green, the Royal Bath & Wells Show has the sense of a great regional carnival
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Bath: baking with a French accent
Baguette recipes, bistros and boules, it's time to say 'Allo 'Allo to an unexpected side of Bath, the most English of spa towns
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A walk around the city of Bath, Somerset
A moderately long but well-marked circular walk with fabulous views of Bath. You'll pass an 18th-century landscape garden with elegant and eccentric follies, and lovely, peaceful woodland
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The Titanic in Belfast, hen weekends and three of the best Hockney sites
Visit Belfast's famous shipyard; take a break in Bath; and enjoy a trio of painterly scenes in Yorkshire
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Historic holidays in the UK
Stay in a 19th-century farm labourer's cottage in Shropshire or a regency townhouse in Bath, or watch Vikings wage war on Lindisfarne Priory, says Abigail Cattell
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Holburne Museum, Bath – review
Despite the obstructive tactics of Bath's so-called aesthetic guardians, the Holburne Museum extension is a triumph, writes Rowan Moore
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Restaurant: Yak Yeti Yak, Bath, Somerset
Get past the terrible name and the less than alluring location beneath a hair salon, and you'll find some really rather wonderful Nepalese cooking, says John Lanchester
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Readers' tips: vegetarian restaurants
From Mexican veggie burgers in Berlin to courgette fritters in Argentina, Been there readers share their tips on where to find the best meat-free treats
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National Trust walks surge in popularityBath skyline route tops league as number of downloads rises 40% in a year
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Readers' tips: great British breakfasts
What better way to get over that New Year's Day hangover than with a big fry-up? We asked you for your favourite places to tuck in – here are the best of the tips
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Film-inspired holidays: The Costume Drama Trip
Jane Austen heroines never travel – but if you must leave your Georgian pile, go and take the waters in Bath
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Bath cleansing brings Romans back to lifeActors and virtual models animate £5.5m overhaul of historic attraction
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It's Bath time
This month, Guardian Travel's 'budget eats' series is in Bath. What do you think of our top 10, and where did we miss?
Shortcuts Will Bath dare to become the first UK city with a ‘tourist tax’?